Data Engineer vs Solutions Architect
Pay, skills and open jobs side by side, from current job postings across the US.
Pay
Data Engineer
$150,000 typical, a year
Most Data Engineers earn $126,800 to $176,700 a year.
From 1,279 postings that list pay
2,959 open jobs now
Solutions Architect
$180,700 typical, a year
Most Solutions Architects earn $154,500 to $200,000 a year.
From 1,743 postings that list pay
3,635 open jobs now
Solutions Architects typically earn about $30,700 more a year than Data Engineers.
What each one does
Data Engineer
- Design and build scalable data pipelines to ingest and process large datasets.
- Develop and maintain data models using SQL and transformation tools.
- Implement data quality controls and monitoring to ensure system reliability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Optimize data systems for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Document data architectures and provide technical guidance to the team.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Solutions Architect
- Design and document scalable and secure solution architectures for complex technical problems.
- Lead technical discovery with customers to understand business needs and clarify requirements.
- Translate business requirements into technical designs and create detailed solution specifications.
- Guide customers through proof of concept and production readiness phases of projects.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to implement and integrate technical solutions.
- Develop and maintain architecture decision records and technical documentation.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Skills employers ask for
Data Engineer
Asked for in both
- SQL 6 in 10 postings
- Python 6 in 10 postings
- AWS 3 in 10 postings
More common in Data Engineer postings
- Data Engineering 6 in 10 postings
- Data Pipeline 4 in 10 postings
- Data Modeling 4 in 10 postings
- Databricks 3 in 10 postings
- ETL/ELT 3 in 10 postings
- Snowflake 3 in 10 postings
- Data Warehousing 3 in 10 postings
Solutions Architect
Asked for in both
- SQL 1 in 10 postings
- Python 2 in 10 postings
- AWS 3 in 10 postings
More common in Solutions Architect postings
- Azure 3 in 10 postings
- Enterprise Architecture 2 in 10 postings
- Computer Science 1 in 10 postings
- CI/CD 1 in 10 postings
- Solution Design 1 in 10 postings
- AI & ML 1 in 10 postings
Out of each role's current postings.
Open jobs
Data Engineer
Mid Data Engineer
Imaginary SpacePay not stated US RemotePostgreSQLAmazon RedshiftKubernetesPythonMongoDB +10- Pay not stated Plano, TXTerraformLookerApache AirflowCI/CDSnowflake +41
- Pay not stated San Jose RemotePythonApache AirflowPostgreSQLSQLMySQL +7
Solutions Architect
AI Solution Architect
Diversified Services Network, Inc.$165k - $170k/yrstated Peoria, Illinois, United StatesSnowflakePythonKubernetesAWSTypeScript +16Senior Solutions Engineer
Sofitechsolutions$105,600 - $198k/yrstated WA - Seattle; CA - San Francisco; NY - New York; UT - Sandy; UT - Cottonwood Heights; TX - Frsico; FL - Jacksonville OnsitePythonJavaJavaScriptTypeScriptGo +13Cloud Architect
Sherwin-WilliamsPay not stated Cleveland, OH, United States
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